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- This invention relates to a crystal liquid display, and more particularly, to correction of an image data.
- Patent Document 1 a crystal liquid display is disclosed which, in correcting an image data signal and generating a correction data signal, generates a present correction data by a present image data signal and an antecedent correction data signal.
- a crystal liquid display which carries a conversion table to refer to a display-driven data of a present frame through a image data of the present frame and a post-driven-state data of an antecedent frame.
- Patent Document 1 U.S. Patent Application Publication No. U.S. 2002/033813 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2002-99249)
- Patent Document 2 U.S. Patent Application Publication No. U.S. 2002/0140652(Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2002-297104)
- a liquid crystal display which includes: a conversion circuit to convert a first image data to a second image data having a fewer number of bits; a frame memory to store the second image data; a difference circuit to output, in units of pixel, a difference data between the second image data of the present frame to be converted and a third image data of an antecedent frame to be outputted from the frame memory; a correction circuit to correct the difference data according to one of the first to third image data; and an adding circuit to add the corrected difference data and the first image data.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a host device and a liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit
- FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage, and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness;
- FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage, and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness;
- FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness;
- FIG. 6 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value and liquid crystal driving voltage
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value and liquid crystal driving voltage
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted image and liquid crystal driving voltage when a gamma characteristic is switched over;
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted data and liquid crystal driving voltage
- FIG. 11 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted data and liquid crystal driving voltage
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram of showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13A is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a reference power supply circuit and a control circuit thereof, and FIG. 13B is a graph showing an example of a gamma characteristic;
- FIG. 14 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted image and liquid crystal driving voltage when the gamma characteristic is switched over.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a host device 101 and a liquid crystal display 102 , according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- the host device 101 is, for example, a personal computer, TV receiver or the like, which outputs image data to the liquid crystal display 102 .
- the liquid crystal display includes a high-speed-response circuit 111 , a timing controller 112 , a reference power supply circuit 113 , a gate driver 114 , a data driver 115 , and liquid crystal panel 116 .
- the high-speed-response circuit 111 inputs therein an image data from the host device 101 , and corrects the image data for the high-response driving of the liquid crystal panel 116 .
- the timing controller 112 inputs therein the corrected image data, and controls the timing of the gate driver 114 and data driver 115 .
- the corrected image data is supplied to the data driver 115 through the timing controller 112 .
- the image data includes, for example, red, green, and blue image data having 8 bits respectively.
- the data driver 115 supplies the liquid crystal driving voltage to the liquid crystal panel 116 according to the image data (tone value).
- the reference power supply circuit 113 generates plural reference power supply voltages corresponding to the tone values of the image data in predetermined intervals, and outputs to the data driver 115 .
- the data driver 115 According to the plural reference power supply voltages, the data driver 115 generates the liquid crystal driving voltages for all the tone values, selects the liquid crystal driving voltage for each image data, and ouputs them to the liquid crystal panel 116 .
- the liquid crystal panel 116 includes plural thin-film transistors (TFT) 117 corresponding to the plural pixels arranged two-dimensionally.
- the transistor 117 has its gate connected to the gate driver 114 , its drain connected to the data driver 115 , and its source connected through a liquid crystal (capacitor) 118 to a common electrode 119 .
- the gate driver 114 outputs a gate pulse for sequentially selecting the transistors 117 arranged two-dimensionally to the gate of the transistor 117 .
- the transistor 117 Upon reception of the gate pulse, the transistor 117 is turned on and the liquid crystal driving voltage is provided to the liquid crystal 118 through the drain. According to the liquid crystal driving voltage, the transmittance of the liquid crystal 118 changes, and thereby the level of brightness changes.
- FIG. 6 is a graph showing an example of relationship between the tone value of an inputted data and the liquid crystal driving voltage.
- the data driver 115 performs conversion from an image data to a liquid crystal driving voltage.
- the inputted image data is for example 8 bits, and has tone values of 0 (zero) to 255.
- FIGS. 3 to 5 illustrates a characteristic 301 showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal voltage, and a characteristic 302 between time (frame) and level of brightness.
- the liquid crystal driving voltage changes from Va to Vb.
- the level of brightness changes from La to Lb, but since the response by the liquid crystal is slow, reaching the targeted brightness Lb costs a few frames. For example, the level of brightness reaches Lb at the start point of the third frame.
- the voltage Vc is a liquid crystal driving voltage for the image data Dc, and is higher than the voltage Vb.
- the image data is corrected such that it transforms in an order of Da, Dc, and Db.
- the voltage is changed from Va to Vc
- the voltage is changed from Vc to Vb.
- the level of brightness at the start point of the first frame becomes La
- the level of brightness at and after the start point of the second frame becomes Lb. This allows the liquid crystal to respond at a high speed.
- FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of the high-speed-response circuit 111 ( FIG. 1 ) which enables the operation shown in FIG. 5 .
- the high-speed-response circuit 111 contains a processing circuit 201 , a frame memory (SDRAM) 202 and a ROM 203 .
- An image data S 1 is inputted such that red, green, and blue image data respectively having m bits are inputted to the high-speed-response circuit 111 in a parallel manner.
- An image data S 2 is an image data consisting of the upper u bits (n ⁇ m) in the image data S 1 having m bits. The relationship between the image data S 1 and S 2 will be explained hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 10 .
- FIG. 10 is a graph showing an example of the relationship between the tone value of the inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage.
- the solid line represents the image data S 1 having m bits.
- the dots on the solid line represent the image data S 2 having n bits.
- the image data S 2 is mapped to the image data S 1 in regular intervals and quantized.
- the image data S 2 is written in the frame memory 202 .
- the frame memory 202 stores the image data S 2 amounting to one frame. Since the image data S 2 has fewer bits than the image data S 1 , the amount of the frame memory 202 can be reduced.
- the frame memory 202 delays the image data S 2 for one frame, and outputs the image data S 3 .
- the comparison circuit 211 compares the image data S 2 of the present frame and the image data S 3 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S 4 .
- the present frame data S 2 of the first frame is Db
- the antecedent frame data S 3 is Da
- the difference data S 4 is Db ⁇ (minus) Da.
- the correction table 212 corrects the difference data S 4 according to the image data S 3 , and outputs a difference data S 5 .
- the image data is transformed from Da to Dc
- the image data is transformed from Dc to Db.
- “Db ⁇ (minus) Da” is inputted as a difference data S 4
- “Dc ⁇ (minus) Db” is outputted as the difference data S 5 .
- 0 (zero) is outputted as the difference data S 5 .
- the correction table 212 reads therein the correction data from the ROM 203 in advance.
- the correction calculating circuit 213 is an adding circuit, wherein the image data S 1 and the difference data S 5 are added and the image data S 6 is outputted.
- the image data S 1 is Db
- the difference data S 5 is Dc ⁇ (minus) Db
- the image data S 6 is Dc.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between the tone value of the inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage, similarly to FIG. 6 .
- the voltage variation of the liquid crystal voltage when the tone value of the inputted image data is changed from 0 (zero) to 50 is ⁇ V1
- the voltage variation of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone value of the inputted image data is changed from 50 to 100 is ⁇ V2.
- the tone valiances of the both are identically 50, but ⁇ V1 is extremely than ⁇ V2. That is to say, although their tone variances are identical, the variance of their liquid crystal driving voltage varies according to the absolute tone value.
- the high-speed-response driving is a method to impress the liquid crystal driving voltage suitable for the changed image data, in a region of a large voltage variance, the image data S 2 needs to be kept in a fine manner in order to perform a precise high-speed-response driving. That is to say, in the neighborhood of ⁇ V1, the image data S 2 needs to be kept in a fine manner.
- One method to enhance the data precision would be to increase the number of bits of the image data S 2 .
- this method leads to an expanded size of circuits such as of the frame memory 202 , comparison circuit 211 , correction table 212 , and so forth.
- the frame memory 202 has a standardized number of bits in general, a frame memory with its number of bits being one rank higher has to be used, leading to a cost increase.
- embodiments to solve the above-described problem will be explained.
- FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit 111 ( FIG. 1 ), according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is the structure in FIG. 2 whereto a lookup 901 table is added.
- a lookup 901 table is added.
- the lookup table 901 converts an image data S 11 having m bits into an image data S 12 having n bits.
- the image data S 11 consists of red, green and blue image data respectively having m bits.
- n bits are fewer than m bits.
- the relationship between the image data S 11 and the image data S 12 are explained below with reference to FIG. 11 .
- FIG. 11 is a graph showing the relationship between the tone value of an inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage.
- the solid line represents the image data S 11 having m bits.
- the dots on the solid line represent the image data S 12 having n bits.
- the image data S 12 is mapped from the image data S 11 in irregular intervals.
- the lookup table 901 is a conversion table to store the correspondence between the image data S 11 and the image data S 12 , and maps the image data S 11 to the image data S 12 in irregular intervals. Further, the lookup table 901 maps the image data S 11 to the image data S 12 such that the levels of the liquid crystal driving voltage corresponding to the image data S 2 (vertical axis of FIG. 11 ) are in regular intervals. With the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage being constant, if the liquid crystal driving response speed is the same between the two data, this mapping is appropriate.
- the lookup table 901 maps the image data S 11 to the image data S 12 in a manner that the response speeds to the liquid crystal driving voltage for the image data S 12 are in regular intervals.
- the conversion to the image data S 12 can be carried out such that the sharp curve portion is fine, and the moderate curve portion is rough. This means that the resolution can be enhanced in a critical portion, allowing a high-quality image display.
- the image data S 12 is written in the frame memory 202 .
- the frame memory 202 stores the image data S 12 in the amount of one frame.
- the image data S 11 consists of red, green, and blue image data respectively having 8 bits.
- the image data S 12 consists of a 5-bit red, 6-bit green, and 5-bit blue image data having 16 bits in total, so that it can be efficiently stored in a memory of a standard size.
- the number of bits for green is greater than that of red and blue, since green is an important color data having greater influence on the level of brightness.
- the frame memory 202 delays the image data S 12 for one frame, and outputs an image data S 13 .
- the comparison circuit 211 compares the image data S 12 of the present frame to the image data S 13 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S 14 thereof in units of pixel.
- the correction table 212 corrects the difference data S 14 according to the image data S 13 , and outputs a difference data S 15 .
- the correction table 212 reads therein the correction data from the ROM 203 in advance.
- the correction table 212 may perform correction according to the image data S 11 or S 12 instead of the image data S 13 .
- the correction calculating circuit 213 is an adding circuit, which adds the image data S 11 and the difference data S 15 , and outputs the image data S 16 . As a result, the high-speed-response driving shown in FIG. 5 can be realized.
- the high-speed-response circuit of FIG. 2 stores the image data S 2 in the frame memory 202 in a manner that the intervals on the axis for tone value (the horizontal axis in FIG. 10 ) of the inputted image data are constant, as shown in FIG. 10 .
- the data is in the regular interval.
- the number of bits of the image data S 2 is increased, the size of the circuit has to be larger, so that a frame memory 202 of one rank higher must be used.
- the portions in the image data S 2 which do not need to be kept in a fine manner are also fragmented, causing inefficiency.
- the high-speed-response circuit of FIG. 9 stores in the frame memory 202 the image data S 12 which is shown in intervals on the axis for the liquid crystal driving voltage (the vertical axis in FIG. 11 ), as shown in FIG. 11 .
- This allows the image data S 12 to keep larger amount of data for the portion requiring finer data, and to keep rough data for the portion not requiring fine data.
- the lookup table 901 the image data S 12 can be kept optimally in the frame memory 202 without increasing the number of bits thereof.
- a lookup table 901 having an identical output bits for red, green, and blue may be used.
- a lookup table 901 having more bits just for green of which the brightness is high can be used, as it leads to a higher precision.
- the number of bits for the general frame memory 202 is fixed such as into 16 bits or 32 bits.
- the lookup table 901 has the same number of bits for red, blue, and green
- the respective colors have 5 bits, leaving one extra bit.
- the frame memory 202 can be used without loss, and at the same time a high-speed-response driving with high precision can be realized.
- the reference power supply circuit 113 in FIG. 1 may consist of an amplifier of digital-analog-converter (DAC) type.
- the DAC-type amplifier 113 can generate plural types of reference power supply voltages (liquid crystal reference driving voltages), and change the reference power supply voltages to be generated according to a control signal.
- the DAC-type amplifier 113 can change the reference power supply voltage and switch the gamma characteristic depending on the image to be displayed. More details are described below with reference of FIGS. 13A and 13B .
- FIG. 13A shows a structural example of the reference power supply circuit (DAC-type amplifier) 113 and a control circuit 1301 thereof, while FIG. 13B shows a gamma characteristic.
- the gamma characteristic shows the relationship between the tone value and the level of brightness of the inputted image data.
- the control circuit 1301 analyzes the tone distribution of one-frame data of the image data S 12 , and outputs a gamma characteristic signal S 28 . For example, when medium values makes up majority of the range of tones from 0 (zero) to 255, a gamma characteristic 1312 is selected so that the portion is finely quantized. On the other hand, if small and large values make up the majority of the range of tones from 0 (zero) to 255 (for example, where there are only black and white pixels), a gamma 1311 is selected to enhance the contrast of the image.
- the reference power supply circuit 113 generates reference power supply voltages for realizing the gamma characteristic 1311 or 1312 , depending on a gamma characteristic signal S 28 that is selected.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing a relationship between the tone value of an inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage.
- Two characteristics 801 and 802 correspond to the two types of gamma characteristics (see FIG. 13B ). In actual cases, there exists a combination of characteristics based on the precision of the DAC of the reference power supply circuit 113 , but herein, for convenience sake, the two types of characteristics 801 and 802 are presented.
- the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone of the inputted image data changes from 0 (zero) to 50 is ⁇ V11.
- the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone of the inputted image data changes from 0 (zero) to 50 is ⁇ V12.
- ⁇ V11 and ⁇ V12 are clearly different.
- an issue is the responding characteristic of the liquid crystal.
- the correction value for ⁇ V11 and ⁇ V12 is known not to be in simple proportionality relation. Accordingly, the correction data required for the ROM 203 in FIG. 9 have to be the correction data both for the characteristic 801 and for 802 , suggesting that the amount of data doubles.
- FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing an example of a function of the high-speed-response circuit 111 ( FIG. 1 ) according to the second embodiment of the present invention. It is the circuit of FIG. 9 with a reference power supply conversion calculator 1201 and a inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 added thereto. The difference between the high-speed-response circuits of FIG. 12 and FIG. 9 is explained below.
- a reference power supply circuit 113 in FIG. 13A is, for example, a DAC-type amplifier, and changes the reference power supply voltages to be generated according to a control signal S 28 .
- the reference power supply conversion calculator 1201 calculates and rewrites the content of the lookup table 901 .
- the lookup table 901 converts an image data S 21 having m bits into an image data S 22 having n bits (n ⁇ m).
- FIG. 14 shows, in comparison to FIG. 8 , an example of the data of the two-type characteristics 801 and 802 which are written in the lookup table 901 .
- the solid line and dotted line represent the image data S 21 having m bits.
- the dots along the solid line and the dotted line represent the image data S 22 having n bits.
- the image data S 21 is mapped to the image data S 22 such that the liquid crystal driving voltage levels (the vertical axis of FIG. 14 ) corresponding to the image data S 22 are in regular intervals.
- the lookup table 901 is set in a manner that the liquid crystal driving voltage is identical between the characteristic 801 before the conversion and the characteristic 802 after the conversion.
- the DAC in the reference power supply circuit 113 and the reference power supply generating part in the data driver 115 are resistance dividing circuits, so that the reference power supply conversion calculator 1201 can change the content of the lookup table 901 with simple calculations.
- the image data S 22 is written in a frame memory 202 .
- the frame memory 202 stores one-frame amount of the image data S 22 .
- the frame memory 202 delays the image data S 22 for one frame, and outputs an image data S 23 .
- a comparison circuit 211 compares the image data S 22 of the present frame and the image data S 23 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S 24 thereof.
- the values for the difference data S 24 differ depending on the characteristics 801 and 802 .
- the inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 is provided.
- the inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 inversely converts the difference data S 24 according to the image data S 23 , and outputs a difference data S 25 .
- the inverse-lookup table 1202 performs the inverse-conversion with respect to the conversion by the lookup table 901 .
- the difference data S 24 is inversely converted to the level of the inputted image data S 21 regardless its characteristic is 801 or 802 .
- the reference power supply conversion calculator 1201 calculates the contents of the lookup tables 901 and 1202 , and rewrites them in the pair form, according to the control signal S 28 .
- the inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 may perform the inverse-conversion based on the image data S 21 or S 22 instead of the image data S 23 .
- the correction table 212 stores one correction data which is common for the characteristics 801 and 802 , corrects the difference data S 25 based on the image data S 21 , and outputs a difference data S 26 .
- the correction table 212 can perform correction according to the image data S 22 or S 23 instead of the image data S 21 .
- a correction calculating circuit 213 adds the image data S 21 and the difference data S 26 and outputs the image data S 27 . Consequently, the high-speed-response driving shown in FIG. 5 can be realized.
- the gamma character can be switched frame by frame based on a one-frame amount of image data.
- a common correction table 212 can be used.
- the need to use different correction tables 212 depending on the characteristics 801 and 802 can be eliminated. This effect is significant, in particular where there are a number of switchable characteristics.
- the ROM 203 no longer needs to store a vast amount of correction data for switching the correction tables 212 .
- the amount of frame memory 202 can be reduced by converting the first image data into a second image data having fewer bits. Further, in the relation curve between the image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage in FIG. 11 , the image data is mapped so as to be fine in a sharp curve portion, and rough in a moderate curve portion. In other words, the resolution can be enhanced with respect to an important portion of the image, allowing a high-quality image display. Moreover, by correcting the difference data with the correction table 212 , the high-speed-response driving comes to be possible as shown in FIG. 5 .
- the conversion of the first image data into the second image data having a small number of bits allows reduction of the amounts of the frame memory.
- the conversion into the second image memory can be carried out such that, in a relation curve between the image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage, a sharp curve portion is converted to a fine image, while a moderate curve portion is converted to a rough image.
- the correction of the difference data according to any of the first to the third image data allows a high-speed-response driving of the liquid crystal.
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- This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-134204, filed on Apr. 28, 2004, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- This invention relates to a crystal liquid display, and more particularly, to correction of an image data.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- In recent years, with demands for energy saving and space saving, notebook PCs (personal computers) or desktop PCs carrying a liquid display monitor are spreading their market. In such a trend, even higher-speed responses are demanded for a liquid crystal display so as to improve the characteristics for displaying moving images and so forth. Accordingly, the improvement of the response of the liquid crystal display is intended through the material characteristics of crystal display, display element structure, and development of a driving method.
- In
Patent Document 1 described below, a crystal liquid display is disclosed which, in correcting an image data signal and generating a correction data signal, generates a present correction data by a present image data signal and an antecedent correction data signal. - Also in
Patent Document 2 described below, a crystal liquid display is disclosed which carries a conversion table to refer to a display-driven data of a present frame through a image data of the present frame and a post-driven-state data of an antecedent frame. - [Patent Document 1] U.S. Patent Application Publication No. U.S. 2002/033813 (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2002-99249)
- [Patent Document 2] U.S. Patent Application Publication No. U.S. 2002/0140652(Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 2002-297104)
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display which performs high-speed-response driving, has small amounts of memory, and allows the high-definition image display, as well as to provide a processing method thereof.
- According to one aspect of the present invention, a liquid crystal display is provided which includes: a conversion circuit to convert a first image data to a second image data having a fewer number of bits; a frame memory to store the second image data; a difference circuit to output, in units of pixel, a difference data between the second image data of the present frame to be converted and a third image data of an antecedent frame to be outputted from the frame memory; a correction circuit to correct the difference data according to one of the first to third image data; and an adding circuit to add the corrected difference data and the first image data.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a host device and a liquid crystal display according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit; -
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage, and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness; -
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage, and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness; -
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal driving voltage and a relationship between time (frame) and level of brightness; -
FIG. 6 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value and liquid crystal driving voltage; -
FIG. 7 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value and liquid crystal driving voltage; -
FIG. 8 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted image and liquid crystal driving voltage when a gamma characteristic is switched over; -
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 10 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted data and liquid crystal driving voltage; -
FIG. 11 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted data and liquid crystal driving voltage; -
FIG. 12 is a block diagram of showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit according to a second embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 13A is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a reference power supply circuit and a control circuit thereof, andFIG. 13B is a graph showing an example of a gamma characteristic; and -
FIG. 14 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between tone value of an inputted image and liquid crystal driving voltage when the gamma characteristic is switched over. -
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of ahost device 101 and aliquid crystal display 102, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Thehost device 101 is, for example, a personal computer, TV receiver or the like, which outputs image data to theliquid crystal display 102. The liquid crystal display includes a high-speed-response circuit 111, atiming controller 112, a referencepower supply circuit 113, agate driver 114, adata driver 115, andliquid crystal panel 116. - The high-speed-
response circuit 111 inputs therein an image data from thehost device 101, and corrects the image data for the high-response driving of theliquid crystal panel 116. Thetiming controller 112 inputs therein the corrected image data, and controls the timing of thegate driver 114 anddata driver 115. The corrected image data is supplied to thedata driver 115 through thetiming controller 112. The image data includes, for example, red, green, and blue image data having 8 bits respectively. Thedata driver 115 supplies the liquid crystal driving voltage to theliquid crystal panel 116 according to the image data (tone value). The referencepower supply circuit 113 generates plural reference power supply voltages corresponding to the tone values of the image data in predetermined intervals, and outputs to thedata driver 115. According to the plural reference power supply voltages, thedata driver 115 generates the liquid crystal driving voltages for all the tone values, selects the liquid crystal driving voltage for each image data, and ouputs them to theliquid crystal panel 116. - The
liquid crystal panel 116 includes plural thin-film transistors (TFT) 117 corresponding to the plural pixels arranged two-dimensionally. Thetransistor 117 has its gate connected to thegate driver 114, its drain connected to thedata driver 115, and its source connected through a liquid crystal (capacitor) 118 to a common electrode 119. - The
gate driver 114 outputs a gate pulse for sequentially selecting thetransistors 117 arranged two-dimensionally to the gate of thetransistor 117. Upon reception of the gate pulse, thetransistor 117 is turned on and the liquid crystal driving voltage is provided to theliquid crystal 118 through the drain. According to the liquid crystal driving voltage, the transmittance of theliquid crystal 118 changes, and thereby the level of brightness changes. -
FIG. 6 is a graph showing an example of relationship between the tone value of an inputted data and the liquid crystal driving voltage. In accordance with the relationship, thedata driver 115 performs conversion from an image data to a liquid crystal driving voltage. The inputted image data is for example 8 bits, and has tone values of 0 (zero) to 255. - FIGS. 3 to 5 illustrates a characteristic 301 showing a relationship between time (frame) and liquid crystal voltage, and a characteristic 302 between time (frame) and level of brightness.
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FIG. 3 , when the image data transforms from Da to Db in the first frame, the liquid crystal driving voltage changes from Va to Vb. At that time, the level of brightness changes from La to Lb, but since the response by the liquid crystal is slow, reaching the targeted brightness Lb costs a few frames. For example, the level of brightness reaches Lb at the start point of the third frame. - On the other hand, as shown in
FIG. 4 , when the voltage which changes from the Va to Vc within the first frame is impressed to the liquid crystal panel, the brightness reaches Lb in the second frame, and Lc in the third frame. Here, the voltage Vc is a liquid crystal driving voltage for the image data Dc, and is higher than the voltage Vb. - As shown in
FIG. 5 , in the case of the inputted image data transforming from Da to Db, the image data is corrected such that it transforms in an order of Da, Dc, and Db. At the start point of the first frame, the voltage is changed from Va to Vc, and at the start point of the second frame, the voltage is changed from Vc to Vb. As a result, the level of brightness at the start point of the first frame becomes La, while the level of brightness at and after the start point of the second frame becomes Lb. This allows the liquid crystal to respond at a high speed. -
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of the high-speed-response circuit 111 (FIG. 1 ) which enables the operation shown inFIG. 5 . The high-speed-response circuit 111 contains aprocessing circuit 201, a frame memory (SDRAM) 202 and aROM 203. An image data S1 is inputted such that red, green, and blue image data respectively having m bits are inputted to the high-speed-response circuit 111 in a parallel manner. An image data S2 is an image data consisting of the upper u bits (n<m) in the image data S1 having m bits. The relationship between the image data S1 and S2 will be explained hereinafter, with reference toFIG. 10 . -
FIG. 10 is a graph showing an example of the relationship between the tone value of the inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage. The solid line represents the image data S1 having m bits. the dots on the solid line represent the image data S2 having n bits. The image data S2 is mapped to the image data S1 in regular intervals and quantized. - In
FIG. 2 , the image data S2 is written in theframe memory 202. Theframe memory 202 stores the image data S2 amounting to one frame. Since the image data S2 has fewer bits than the image data S1, the amount of theframe memory 202 can be reduced. - The
frame memory 202 delays the image data S2 for one frame, and outputs the image data S3. Thecomparison circuit 211 compares the image data S2 of the present frame and the image data S3 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S4. For example, inFIG. 5 , the present frame data S2 of the first frame is Db, while the antecedent frame data S3 is Da. The difference data S4 is Db −(minus) Da. - The correction table 212 corrects the difference data S4 according to the image data S3, and outputs a difference data S5. For example, as shown in
FIG. 5 , at the start point of the first frame, the image data is transformed from Da to Dc, and at the start point of the second frame, the image data is transformed from Dc to Db. Hence, when “Db−(minus) Da” is inputted as a difference data S4, “Dc−(minus) Db” is outputted as the difference data S5. In the following frame, 0 (zero) is outputted as the difference data S5. The correction table 212 reads therein the correction data from theROM 203 in advance. - The
correction calculating circuit 213 is an adding circuit, wherein the image data S1 and the difference data S5 are added and the image data S6 is outputted. For example, as shown inFIG. 5 , the image data S1 is Db, the difference data S5 is Dc −(minus) Db, and the image data S6 is Dc. Thus, the high-speed response driving shown inFIG. 5 can be realized. -
FIG. 7 is a graph showing an example of a relationship between the tone value of the inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage, similarly toFIG. 6 . The voltage variation of the liquid crystal voltage when the tone value of the inputted image data is changed from 0 (zero) to 50 is ΔV1, while the voltage variation of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone value of the inputted image data is changed from 50 to 100 is ΔV2. The tone valiances of the both are identically 50, but ΔV1 is extremely than ΔV2. That is to say, although their tone variances are identical, the variance of their liquid crystal driving voltage varies according to the absolute tone value. - Because the high-speed-response driving is a method to impress the liquid crystal driving voltage suitable for the changed image data, in a region of a large voltage variance, the image data S2 needs to be kept in a fine manner in order to perform a precise high-speed-response driving. That is to say, in the neighborhood of ΔV1, the image data S2 needs to be kept in a fine manner.
- One method to enhance the data precision would be to increase the number of bits of the image data S2. However, this method leads to an expanded size of circuits such as of the
frame memory 202,comparison circuit 211, correction table 212, and so forth. Further, since theframe memory 202 has a standardized number of bits in general, a frame memory with its number of bits being one rank higher has to be used, leading to a cost increase. In the following, embodiments to solve the above-described problem will be explained. -
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of a structure of a high-speed-response circuit 111 (FIG. 1 ), according to a first embodiment of the present invention.FIG. 9 is the structure inFIG. 2 whereto alookup 901 table is added. Explained below are points of difference of the high-speed-response circuit inFIG. 9 compared to that ofFIG. 2 . - The lookup table 901 converts an image data S11 having m bits into an image data S12 having n bits. The image data S11 consists of red, green and blue image data respectively having m bits. Here, n bits are fewer than m bits. The relationship between the image data S11 and the image data S12 are explained below with reference to
FIG. 11 . -
FIG. 11 is a graph showing the relationship between the tone value of an inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage. The solid line represents the image data S11 having m bits. The dots on the solid line represent the image data S12 having n bits. The image data S12 is mapped from the image data S11 in irregular intervals. - The lookup table 901 is a conversion table to store the correspondence between the image data S11 and the image data S12, and maps the image data S11 to the image data S12 in irregular intervals. Further, the lookup table 901 maps the image data S11 to the image data S12 such that the levels of the liquid crystal driving voltage corresponding to the image data S2 (vertical axis of
FIG. 11 ) are in regular intervals. With the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage being constant, if the liquid crystal driving response speed is the same between the two data, this mapping is appropriate. If the liquid crystal driving response speed is not the same, then the lookup table 901 maps the image data S11 to the image data S12 in a manner that the response speeds to the liquid crystal driving voltage for the image data S12 are in regular intervals. Hence, in the relation curve between the image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage, the conversion to the image data S12 can be carried out such that the sharp curve portion is fine, and the moderate curve portion is rough. This means that the resolution can be enhanced in a critical portion, allowing a high-quality image display. - In
FIG. 9 , the image data S12 is written in theframe memory 202. Theframe memory 202 stores the image data S12 in the amount of one frame. For example, the image data S11 consists of red, green, and blue image data respectively having 8 bits. The image data S12 consists of a 5-bit red, 6-bit green, and 5-bit blue image data having 16 bits in total, so that it can be efficiently stored in a memory of a standard size. The number of bits for green is greater than that of red and blue, since green is an important color data having greater influence on the level of brightness. Theframe memory 202 delays the image data S12 for one frame, and outputs an image data S13. Thecomparison circuit 211 compares the image data S12 of the present frame to the image data S13 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S14 thereof in units of pixel. - The correction table 212 corrects the difference data S14 according to the image data S13, and outputs a difference data S15. The correction table 212 reads therein the correction data from the
ROM 203 in advance. The correction table 212 may perform correction according to the image data S11 or S12 instead of the image data S13. Thecorrection calculating circuit 213 is an adding circuit, which adds the image data S11 and the difference data S15, and outputs the image data S16. As a result, the high-speed-response driving shown inFIG. 5 can be realized. - The high-speed-response circuit of
FIG. 2 stores the image data S2 in theframe memory 202 in a manner that the intervals on the axis for tone value (the horizontal axis inFIG. 10 ) of the inputted image data are constant, as shown inFIG. 10 . For the portion in which the image data S2 should be kept in a fine manner, the data is in the regular interval. When the number of bits of the image data S2 is increased, the size of the circuit has to be larger, so that aframe memory 202 of one rank higher must be used. In addition, the portions in the image data S2 which do not need to be kept in a fine manner are also fragmented, causing inefficiency. - On the other hand, the high-speed-response circuit of
FIG. 9 stores in theframe memory 202 the image data S12 which is shown in intervals on the axis for the liquid crystal driving voltage (the vertical axis inFIG. 11 ), as shown inFIG. 11 . This allows the image data S12 to keep larger amount of data for the portion requiring finer data, and to keep rough data for the portion not requiring fine data. By using the lookup table 901, the image data S12 can be kept optimally in theframe memory 202 without increasing the number of bits thereof. - Since the response of the liquid crystal is evaluated on a basis of brightness, a lookup table 901 having an identical output bits for red, green, and blue may be used. However, considering the size of the
frame memory 202, a lookup table 901 having more bits just for green of which the brightness is high can be used, as it leads to a higher precision. For example, the number of bits for thegeneral frame memory 202 is fixed such as into 16 bits or 32 bits. When the 16-bit frame memory 202 is used in which the lookup table 901 has the same number of bits for red, blue, and green, the respective colors have 5 bits, leaving one extra bit. In such a case, by allocating five bits for red and blue respectively and six bits for green, theframe memory 202 can be used without loss, and at the same time a high-speed-response driving with high precision can be realized. - A second embodiment of the present invention is hereinafter explained. The reference
power supply circuit 113 inFIG. 1 may consist of an amplifier of digital-analog-converter (DAC) type. The DAC-type amplifier 113 can generate plural types of reference power supply voltages (liquid crystal reference driving voltages), and change the reference power supply voltages to be generated according to a control signal. The DAC-type amplifier 113 can change the reference power supply voltage and switch the gamma characteristic depending on the image to be displayed. More details are described below with reference ofFIGS. 13A and 13B . - The
FIG. 13A shows a structural example of the reference power supply circuit (DAC-type amplifier) 113 and acontrol circuit 1301 thereof, whileFIG. 13B shows a gamma characteristic. The gamma characteristic shows the relationship between the tone value and the level of brightness of the inputted image data. - The
control circuit 1301 analyzes the tone distribution of one-frame data of the image data S12, and outputs a gamma characteristic signal S28. For example, when medium values makes up majority of the range of tones from 0 (zero) to 255, a gamma characteristic 1312 is selected so that the portion is finely quantized. On the other hand, if small and large values make up the majority of the range of tones from 0 (zero) to 255 (for example, where there are only black and white pixels), agamma 1311 is selected to enhance the contrast of the image. The referencepower supply circuit 113 generates reference power supply voltages for realizing the gamma characteristic 1311 or 1312, depending on a gamma characteristic signal S28 that is selected. -
FIG. 8 is a graph showing a relationship between the tone value of an inputted image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage. Twocharacteristics FIG. 13B ). In actual cases, there exists a combination of characteristics based on the precision of the DAC of the referencepower supply circuit 113, but herein, for convenience sake, the two types ofcharacteristics - In the characteristic 801, the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone of the inputted image data changes from 0 (zero) to 50 is ΔV11. In the characteristic 802, similarly, the variance of the liquid crystal driving voltage when the tone of the inputted image data changes from 0 (zero) to 50 is ΔV12. ΔV11 and ΔV12 are clearly different. Here, an issue is the responding characteristic of the liquid crystal. The correction value for ΔV11 and ΔV12 is known not to be in simple proportionality relation. Accordingly, the correction data required for the
ROM 203 inFIG. 9 have to be the correction data both for the characteristic 801 and for 802, suggesting that the amount of data doubles. Further, in the actual liquid crystal driving, not only the two types of characteristics, 801 and 802, but also additional characteristics may be necessary, suggesting that the method of storing the correction data of each characteristic in theROM 203 is extremely inefficient and not practical. Shown inFIG. 12 is a high-speed-response circuit in order to solve this problem. -
FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing an example of a function of the high-speed-response circuit 111 (FIG. 1 ) according to the second embodiment of the present invention. It is the circuit ofFIG. 9 with a reference powersupply conversion calculator 1201 and a inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 added thereto. The difference between the high-speed-response circuits ofFIG. 12 andFIG. 9 is explained below. - A reference
power supply circuit 113 inFIG. 13A is, for example, a DAC-type amplifier, and changes the reference power supply voltages to be generated according to a control signal S28. Subsequently, inFIG. 12 , the reference powersupply conversion calculator 1201 calculates and rewrites the content of the lookup table 901. The lookup table 901 converts an image data S21 having m bits into an image data S22 having n bits (n<m). -
FIG. 14 shows, in comparison toFIG. 8 , an example of the data of the two-type characteristics FIG. 11 ), the image data S21 is mapped to the image data S22 such that the liquid crystal driving voltage levels (the vertical axis ofFIG. 14 ) corresponding to the image data S22 are in regular intervals. For example, upon conversion from the characteristic 801 to the characteristic 802, the lookup table 901 is set in a manner that the liquid crystal driving voltage is identical between the characteristic 801 before the conversion and the characteristic 802 after the conversion. - The DAC in the reference
power supply circuit 113 and the reference power supply generating part in thedata driver 115 are resistance dividing circuits, so that the reference powersupply conversion calculator 1201 can change the content of the lookup table 901 with simple calculations. - The image data S22 is written in a
frame memory 202. Theframe memory 202 stores one-frame amount of the image data S22. Theframe memory 202 delays the image data S22 for one frame, and outputs an image data S23. Acomparison circuit 211 compares the image data S22 of the present frame and the image data S23 of the antecedent frame, and outputs a difference data S24 thereof. - Here, the values for the difference data S24 differ depending on the
characteristics characteristics - The inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 inversely converts the difference data S24 according to the image data S23, and outputs a difference data S25. The inverse-lookup table 1202 performs the inverse-conversion with respect to the conversion by the lookup table 901. The difference data S24 is inversely converted to the level of the inputted image data S21 regardless its characteristic is 801 or 802. The reference power
supply conversion calculator 1201 calculates the contents of the lookup tables 901 and 1202, and rewrites them in the pair form, according to the control signal S28. Note that the inverse-conversion lookup table 1202 may perform the inverse-conversion based on the image data S21 or S22 instead of the image data S23. - The correction table 212 stores one correction data which is common for the
characteristics correction calculating circuit 213 adds the image data S21 and the difference data S26 and outputs the image data S27. Consequently, the high-speed-response driving shown inFIG. 5 can be realized. - According to the second embodiment, the gamma character can be switched frame by frame based on a one-frame amount of image data. By converting the image data by the lookup table 901 and thereafter inversely converting it by the inverse-conversion lookup table 1202, a common correction table 212 can be used. The need to use different correction tables 212 depending on the
characteristics ROM 203 no longer needs to store a vast amount of correction data for switching the correction tables 212. - As has been described, with the first and the second embodiments, the amount of
frame memory 202 can be reduced by converting the first image data into a second image data having fewer bits. Further, in the relation curve between the image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage inFIG. 11 , the image data is mapped so as to be fine in a sharp curve portion, and rough in a moderate curve portion. In other words, the resolution can be enhanced with respect to an important portion of the image, allowing a high-quality image display. Moreover, by correcting the difference data with the correction table 212, the high-speed-response driving comes to be possible as shown inFIG. 5 . - The conversion of the first image data into the second image data having a small number of bits allows reduction of the amounts of the frame memory. At the same time, the conversion into the second image memory can be carried out such that, in a relation curve between the image data and the liquid crystal driving voltage, a sharp curve portion is converted to a fine image, while a moderate curve portion is converted to a rough image. Further, the correction of the difference data according to any of the first to the third image data allows a high-speed-response driving of the liquid crystal.
- The present embodiment is to be considered in all respects as illustrative and no restrictive, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof.
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